Wind-velocity lidar measurements by use of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, comparison with a Fabry-Perot interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 173-182

  Bruneau, Didier ^a   Garnier, Anne ^b   Hertzog, Albert ^c   Porteneuve, Jacques ^b  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERRORS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUNDS; MACH-ZENDER INTERFEROMETER;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0346007958     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000173     Document Type: Article

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